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Mar 28, 2015

5 Things We Love Right Now

Merrick Morton

Kyle Chandler is the brother who tries to save the Rayburn family on the new Netflix series, "Bloodline."

• From your phone — live

Forget uploading Web videos. Two live streaming apps — Twitter’s
Periscope released Thursday and Meerkat at SXSW earlier this month — are
upending social media. Broadcast from your phone whatever you’re doing
right now or capture breaking news — as onlookers did Thursday of New
York City’s building collapse. Periscope has the added advantage of
saving streams to play later.
Unlike earlier attempts with live streaming, these apps are gaining
traction, particularly among celebs. Bring on the live cat videos!

• Women & Biking

Bike PGH and Carnegie Mellon University host their second Women &
Biking forum today on campus at Porter Hall in Oakland. Keynote
speakers are Ren Barger, CEO of Oklahoma’s social service project Tulsa
Hub, and Pittsburgh’s Monica Garrison, founder of
www.BlackGirlsDoBike.com.

There will be six sessions such as “Getting to Know Your Bike”
and “Responding to Bikelash.” There will be a casual ride at 3:15 p.m.
for all interested. Admission is $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers.
For details: BikePGH.org.

• For Richard Armitage, the play’s the thing

Mr. Armitage — “The Hobbit’s” Thorin Oakenshield and future
"Hannibal" villain — last year was acting up a storm in “The Crucible”
at the Old Vic, an acclaimed production that was filmed for screens in
the UK but never made it across the pond. Now see the play in the
privacy of your home courtesy of Digital Theatre, a website that offers
rent-or-buy downloads of theater, opera and musical performances. Cost
is $8.99 to rent or $12.99 to buy ($15.99 for HD) at
www.digitaltheatre.com.

• ‘Sound Advice’ with Janessa Slater

“Saturday Night Live” standout Vanessa Bayer hosts the fake Web
show, “Sound Advice.” Her suggestions and insights are always terrible.
The humor is in the same vein as “Between Two Ferns” — awkward, more
offensive than the Zach Galifianakis series — and the Slater-Kinney
episode is a particular treat.

Binge watch ‘Bloodline’

Ready for some intense family drama, acted by an insanely talented
cast? Catch up on “Bloodline,” which debuted all 13 episodes March 20 on
Netflix (also in 4K for those lucky folks with top-of-the-line TVs).

Set in the Florida Keys, “Bloodline” follows the Rayburns as black
sheep son Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) returns home. Mom (Sissy Spacek) and
Dad (Sam Shepard) head a successful clan torn by secrets (“We’re not bad
people, but we did a bad thing.”) The last minute of the pilot is a
shocker, all right.